marston annie wright (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. With map and illustrations (illustrator). Decorated illustrated gray cloth boards. Brown end papers, gilt closed page edges. Front inner hinge cracked. Foxing marks on some pages. No jacket, old gift inscription inside.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b The Children of China. Written for the Children of England. By their old friend the author of The Children of India [i.e. Annie W. Marston]. With map and illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Pr.

First Edition. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to verso of fly-leaf, with a charming associated letter in the same hand on headed note paper dated January 1891. Hinges starting, but binding remains firm. Slightly toned, with a strong tobacco scent. A 3cm tear to map in the usual place where it joins the book. An attractive copy. Very good. Part of a series also including 'The Children of India' and 'The Children of China' written to promote the author's Children's Missionary Prayer Union. It attempts to give a broad overview of the history and people of the continent, while also promoting the idea of Christian Missionary activity there. Composed entirely from secondary materials, it inevitably repeats many slurs and stereotypes common to period, while also explaining and condemning the transatlantic slave trade.

1st Edition. Fold-out map and black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth covered boards decorated in light and dark blue and gilt, some marks, spine lightly sunned, head & tail slightly frayed. Brown endpapers with inner front hinge cracked, edges and corners rubbed, page edges age toned, some light foxing. Yet still a good firm copy.All edges gilt. 312pp. By Annie W. Marston, "old Friend, The author of "The Children of India" dedicated to 32 English children who asked for a book on Chinese children. Annie Wright Marston, daughter of Dr. C. H. Marston of Devizes, Wiltshire, was a missionary born at Uley, Gloucestershire, in 1852. There are gritty descriptions of the treatment of baby girls in China and of women in general. The final chapter of the book asks for help to raise money for Chinese Missionary Societies.